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RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/roff.7,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -p -r1.6 -r1.7
--- mandoc/roff.7	2010/05/24 22:25:58	1.6
+++ mandoc/roff.7	2010/05/24 23:54:18	1.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.6 2010/05/24 22:25:58 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: roff.7,v 1.7 2010/05/24 23:54:18 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\"
@@ -126,7 +126,15 @@ which may be separated by any intervening input (or no
 Its syntax is equivalent to
 .Sx \&if .
 .Ss \&if
-Begins a conditional that always evaluates to false.
+Begins a conditional.
+Right now, the conditional evaluates to true
+if and only if it starts with the letter
+.Sy n ,
+indicating processing in
+.Xr nroff 1
+style as opposed to
+.Xr troff 1
+style.
 If a conditional is false, its children are not processed, but are
 syntactically interpreted to preserve the integrity of the input
 document.
@@ -249,7 +257,7 @@ Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,
 and the number of arguments is not checked.
 .Ss \&tr
 Output character translation.
-This macro is intended to have one argument, 
+This macro is intended to have one argument,
 consisting of an even number of characters.
 Currently, it is ignored including its arguments,
 and the number of arguments is not checked.